ABOUT THE COMPANY 

Amplify Consulting Partners is a data-first consulting company trusted by Fortune 500 businesses to deliver high-impact professional services across the technology ecosystem—from data engineering and visual analytics to data-driven marketing and program management. 

We build and empower high-performing people by promoting growth and connection across our company culture. We don't just hang core values on the wall, we make every decision with them in mind—developing trusted, long-term relationships on a foundation of transparency and accountability. 

DEI STATEMENT  

We hold ourselves accountable for creating an authentic workplace where every person feels heard and experiences a sense of belonging.  

We believe that organizations can be an instrument for positive human impact when they champion a diverse, inclusive, and equitable environment. We do this at Amplify by enacting programs and policies that promote DEI—and with humility, if we miss the mark, we rigorously amend our practices to better achieve our targeted outcomes. Simply put, we turn our words into action. 

About this role 

* Candidate must be based in the Seattle area and is required to be in the office 2 days/week. * 

• Requirements Management: 

  • Understand all requirements associated with a new EPIC or Initiative.
  • Work with Product Manager/Owner and Sr Developers/Leads on documenting requirements associated with a particular initiative or EPIC.
  • Develop and maintain functional specifications or “How to Use This Feature” documentation (when appropriate).
  • Manage and lead the requirements gathering sessions.

  Ticket Development & Refinement: 

  • Create and refine detailed User Stories consistent with the High Level Requirements noted in the associated EPIC.
  • Refine Stories as needed so that they have required detailed to be actioned by the full scrum team.
  • Elicit and document ticket dependencies, ensuring that information is tagged correctly and captured in the Dependency Huddle board.
  • Ensure all stories meet the agreed “Definition of Ready” before being taken into sprint planning session
  • Note: for Critical tickets brought in mid sprint, analyze and refine ticket to mitigate risk of ticket issues
  • Contribute to work estimates as appropriate so that sprint planning is effective.
  • Maintain a “healthy” backlog consistent with agreed upon targets for INTL. (2 Sprints ahead).
  • Manage and lead the ticket refinement process.

  Partnering with Third Party Teams (internal/external): 

  • Facilitate necessary conversations with teams outside of INTL, ensuring necessary tickets are created to address the requirements.
  • Facilitate meetings with third parties as required to ensure the work is progressing in such a way as to meet overall EPIC or Project timelines.
  • Ensure cross team collaboration is occurring as needed and that any blockers are resolved or escalated as appropriate to keep the work progressing.
  • Close out as required and per agreed prioritization (set by the Product Manager/Owner) any outstanding issues that exist post go-live i.e. How-To documents

  Process Improvement:  

  • Help ensure a continual process improvement focus exists across the team, supporting an environment of experimentation and new practice trials.
  • Ensure consistency with lulu’s INTL common practices. 
  • Contribute to and lead Process Improvement activities as appropriate and per PI roadmap plans, etc.
  • Partner with peer Business Analysts to share and leverage lessons learned, fostering a PI culture at all times. 

  Test Plan Review: 

  • Review Test plan to ensure acceptance criteria is clearly noted
  • ensure they can be linked back to requirements

  Operations Support: 

  • When applicable, ensure third party information is up-to-date related to scheduled maintenance windows/planned outages
  • When applicable, ensure third party contact/issue resolution information is up-to-date

  Quarterly Planning 

  • Review initial Business and Technical ‘EPIC’ requirements as part of pre planning and carry out detailed analysis in order to determine solution and specific stakeholder requirements
  • Analyze platform and functionality along with facilitating as needed discussions with UX, Engineering and external teams (CoE, SRE, Analytics) in order to determine solution requirements, dependencies and risks
  • Communicate findings to Product Manager and support the updating of EPIC details and initial creation of user stories based on this analysis
  • During quarterly planning provide QA and Engineering teams with details of analysis as needed in order to support the team in providing as accurate a LOE as possible given available information
  • For any assumptions made for new business requirements, clarify and confirm assumptions with the SME stakeholder group and/or conduct the analysis required to confirm the assumption is accurate
  • Support the Scrum Master in creation of intake requests for external teams as needed

   

Qualifications 

• Experience providing requirements for medium to large initiatives
• Experience working with both agile and waterfall delivery methodologies 
• Demonstrated experience translating strategy into feature development roadmaps 
• Demonstrated experience making tradeoffs between business needs and technology constraints while keep the guests need at top of mind 
• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life. 
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.

SALARY AND BENEFIT HIGHLIGHTS 

At Amplify we take a holistic approach to total rewards in order to invest in the satisfaction and success of our employees both now and in the future. We consider the whole person and want to support our employees in living full lives both personally and professionally. The following is an overview of what you’ll get as a member of our team.Salary Range: We are committed to equitable and fair pay practices. For this role, the starting salary pay range is $65,000 - $110,000 a year. We consider a variety of factors when making compensation decisions and generally do not hire employees at the highest point of the pay range. The earning potential for this role is up to $120,000. We share this to ensure transparency, expectation-setting and education for candidates.  

• Remote work option
• Flexible time off (time to recharge when you need it!) 
• 11 observed holidays
• Medical/dental/vision – employee is covered at 100%, dependents are subsidized
• Parental leave, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance options 
• ‘Amplify You’ program – $1,000 annually for your own development or investment in well-being after one year 
• Student loan payback program 
• Mentorship and training opportunities 
• Business and employee referral bonus opportunities

OUR HIRING PRACTICESAt Amplify, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We are committed to creating a diverse and welcoming workplace that includes all employees with diverse backgrounds and experience.